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This document summarizes research on the geology and petrogenesis of the Capitan Pluton in New Mexico. The authors determined that the pluton is a zoned, hypabyssal alkali feldspar granite intrusion with discordant and concordant contacts with surrounding Paleozoic country rock. The pluton shows vertical and lateral zoning, with a high-silica aplite roof zone enriched in incompatible elements and a lower silica granite-porphyry core zone depleted in incompatible elements. Fractional crystallization of miner

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